The Future of Data Centres: Industrialisation, AI, and Sustainable Energy

These sustainable building measures will reduce the MEP plant loads so that plant takes less space; reducing the building volume further.

Much of the valuable information is lost because councils can’t consume the 3D designs and BIM models created by architects and engineers.. From this point, the information goes to the local planning authority.While they’re good at interpreting it, things can take a long time depending on the size of the development.

Ricketts says he’s spent time with case officers who’ve spent two days with a calculator trying to work out daylight sunlight calculations and viability.He points out that these people didn’t go into planning to do those things.They went into planning to do the subjective work, and to do the planning..

While working on the Reducing Invalid Planning Applications project (RIPA), Ricketts began to map all of the legislation and planning policy, turning it into rules-based code.He wondered whether it could be used to map against BIM models, in order to extract all of the relevant information that planners need to assess and develop a decision.

The aim would be to extract only the relevant pieces of information, out of the hundreds of thousands of bits of information in a BIM, leading to the question of how to present it for successful interpretation.

This is where his second project, Back-office Planning Service (BoPS), comes in.That means our product has to work independently of us – it has to achieve a level of external usability and stability..

Working in this way has also given us a lot of scope in terms of choosing what sort of team we want to be, to evolve sometimes according to the individuals who join the team, and to decide our own overall development path – but we’ve always been tethered strongly to the core intellectual drive of the company.. What is your position on AI/generative design/automation in construction/robotics in construction?.AI relies on large data sets.

These aren’t typically available in our sector so the use of AI in construction has been somewhat limited by that.Examples of AI are often narrowly defined and only really touch a very specific part of the overall process; the part for which large data sets do exist.. ‘Generative design’ means many things, but generally it’s an approach used in the industry to solve complicated problems; you use generative design to create loads of possible solutions or scenarios, from which you choose the best..